[openbeos] Re: Icon Artwork
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:45:42 +0200 CEST
Helmar Rudolph <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> François wrote:
>
> > One thing that BeOS had over some other OS for some time was gui
> > consistency...
>
> ...which, if I may add, is the whole point of having icons in
> the first place. If they are not the same across applications,
> you might as well remove icon bars altogether. In fact, I am a
> strong proponent of having one single icon set that developers
> have to use. Any icons that need to be designed for specific
> purposes should find their way into the set, allowing others to
> use them. There should never ever be the possibility to have
> different icons for the same action across applications.
>
+1
-- Mikael
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